GAUGING THE ZAMOLODCHIKOV OMEGA-ALGEBRA

被引:88
作者
HULL, CM [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV LONDON QUEEN MARY COLL, DEPT PHYS, LONDON E1 4NS, ENGLAND
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10.1016/0370-2693(90)90417-5
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
A world-sheet action is presented whose constraint algebra is the Zamolodchikov W-algebra. It consists of a matter system, such as a free boson model or an SU (3) WZW model, coupled to world-sheet gauge fields of spin two and three which are Lagrange multipliers imposing the constraints. The classical symmetry group has an algebra with field-dependent structure constants. The possibility of a new kind of string theory based on the W-algebra instead of the Virasoro algebra is considered. © 1990.
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